Shakespeare Thinking

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8694-3
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

Reihe: Shakespeare Now!

Shakespeare Now! is an innovative and exciting new series from Continuum
- Argues for the importance of the immediacy of dramatic experience over the slower forms of scholarly thinking
- Argues for creative thinking as an immediate dynamic process exemplified in Shakespeare.

SERIES DESCIPTION
Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. Shakespeare Now! recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know the best methods for approaching his plays. Shakespeare Now! is a new generation of critics, unafraid of risk, on a series of intellectual adventures. Above all - it is a new Shakespeare, freshly present in each volume.

Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare’s working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Postgraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Victorians Thinking Shakespeare
Shakespeare as a paradigm of human mental creativity Shakespeare's 'thinking-out through words'
The Shakespearian dynamic
Shakespeare and cognitive science
Movement between orality and print
Shakespeare as a model mind

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Davis is Professor and Head of the School of English, University of Liverpool. His books include Sudden Shakespeare and The Victorians (Oxford English Literary History).

Simon Palfrey is a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Ewan Fernie is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London.